Short-cut multiplying machine



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SHORT- CUT MULTIPLYING MACHINE l8 Sheets-Sheet l8 INVENTORS STURE TOORELL av ERIK GRIP BY 4M THEIR ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 23, 1952 SHORT-CUT MULTIPLYING MACHINE Sture Toorell and Erik Grip, Atvidaberg, Sweden, assignors to Aktiebolaget Atvidaberg Facit, Atvidaberg, Sweden, a joint-stock company of Sweden Application January 28, 1947, Serial No. 724,799 In Sweden February 6, 1946 6 Claims.

Machines for automatic short-cut multiplication are known but the mechanisms for effecting the automatic multiplication were heretofore complicated, bulky and expensive.

The chief purpose of this invention is to simplify such mechanism by using a single sensing mechanism for sensing all denominational orders of a multiplier storage device and which is moved stepwise in parallel with the multiplicand actuator and eflects the sensing in one denomination after the other. In contrast to this, a separate sensing mechanism for each denomination was heretofore used.

For this reason, the mechanism in accordance with this invention can be made much lighter and smaller, because the number of elements therein is considerably reduced. This also means that the mechanism in accordance with this invention is less subjected to jamming and similar disturbances; it is thus very reliable in operation.

It is an object of the invention to provide a machine for performing automatic short-cut multiplication in which a single sensing mechanism is moved stepwise or ordinally together with the multiplicand actuator to provide for sensing in the several denominational orders of a multiplier storage device sequentially.

It is another object of the invention to provide a mechanism for performing short-out multiplication which mechanism is not subject to Jamming or other disturbances and is reliable in operation.

Another object of the invention is to provide a short-cut multiplying mechanism which is lighter and smaller than those heretofore used and which is consequently relatively simple and easy to manufacture and likewise relatively inexpensive. I

Other objects and features of the invention will be apparent when the following specification is considered in connection with the annexed drawings, which drawings illustrate one embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 1 is a cross-section through the machine.

Fig. 2 shows the machine from below, certain parts (particularly the motor and the driving aggregate) being broken away; Fig. 2 may be said to be a horizontal section on the line II-II in Fig. 1. The multiplier storage rotor is shown in its cleared position in Fig. 2.

Fig. 3 shows aview of the machine from below, i. e. a view seen in the direction of the arrows III-III in Fig. 1.

Figs. 3A and 3B show details.

Fig. 4 shows a detail viewed from below, certain parts being broken away to show the parts below. (Fig.4 may be said to be part of Fig. 3 with certain parts broken away.)

Fig. 5 shows, viewed from the bottom of the machine, a detail of the multiplier storage rotor and adjacent parts.

Fig. 5A is an end view of the storage mechanism, viewed from the left in Fig. 5.

Fig. 6 is a detail of a disk of the multiplier storage rotor seen from the left (i. e. from a direction opposite to that in Fig. 1).

Fig. 7 shows a detail taken out from Fig. 4, viz. a part of the guide for the feeler carriage, viewed from below.

Figs. 8A and 8B show end views in the direction of the arrows VIIIA-VIIIA and VIIIB VIIIB respectively in Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a detail of the step shift device for the feeler, viewed from the back side of the machine; Fig. 9 may be said to be a detail in the direction of the arrows IX-IX in Fig. 5.

Fig. 10 is a detail view of a portion of Fig. 5 and shows part of the feeler mechanism.

Fig. 11 shows the detail illustrated in Fig. 10, viewed in the direction of the arrows XI-XI in Fig. 10.

Fig. 12 is a detail view of the clearing wedge for the multiplier storage rotor.

Fig. 13 shows a view of the clearing wedge seen in the direction of the arrows XIIIXIII in Fig. 12.

Fig. 14 is an end view in the direction of the arrows XIV-XIV in Fig. 12.

Fig. 15 is a plan view of the lower part of the machine, the overlying parts being broken away to show more clearly the step shifting mechanism; the figure may be considered tobe a section on the line XVXV in Fig. 1 with certain parts broken away.

Fig. 16 is a detail view from the right side of the machine in the direction of the arrows XVI-XVI in Fig. 2.

Fig. 17 shows the machine seen from its right side, thus a view in the direction of the arrows XVII--XVII in Fig. 3.

Fig. 18 is a detail from Fig. 17 after certain parts have been broken away for better clearness; Fig. 18 shows the positions of the parts before the beginning of a feeling operation.

Fig. 18a is a fragmentary view, showing the cam drive for the arm I31 of Fig. 18.

Fig. 19 is a view analogous to Fig. 18 and illustrates the positions of the parts after a feeling operation has been finished.

Fig. 20 shows a view of a detail of the multiplier storage mechanism of Fig. 17.

3 Fig. 21 shows a view in the direction of the arrows XXIXXI in Fig. 20.

Fig. 22 shows a detail view in the direction of the arrows XXIIXXII in Fig. 18, the upper half of Fig. 22 showing the details in section.

Fig. 23 is a detail view of the coupling-between the quotient counter actuator shaft and the actuating tooth of the feeler; this figure is a detail viewed in the direction of the arrows XXIII XXIII in Fig. 17.

Fig. 24-. shows a detail View in the direction of the arrows XXIV-XXIV in Fig. 3.

Fig. 25 shows a side view of the machine from the left that is a view in the direction of the arrows XXV-XXV in Fig. 3.

Fig. 26 shows an axial section through the multiplier storage rotor and illustrates themethod of mounting it.

Figs. 27A and 2713 show details taken from Fig. 17 and illustrate the diiferent positions of the correction arm.

Figs. 28A, 28B and 28C are also details taken from Fig. 17 and illustrate the three different positions for the slide determining in which direction the ordinary or main actuator works during automatic multiplication.

Finally. Fig. '29 shows a detail from Fig. 4.

It should be expressly mentioned here that several different scales have been choosen for the difierent figures in the drawings and that the scales have been chosen onlyfor the purpose of obtaining a maximum of clear'ness in each' particular figure. a

For the sake of clearness in certain of the drawings only those parts are shown which are next to the spectator (next to the plane of the drawing), while remoter parts have been omitted; for the same reason parts have been completely or partially cut away in certain of the figures.

When not otherwise expressly stated, the expressions right/f 1e ft, forwards, backwards, upwards and downwards are used throughout this specification to indicate these directions as they appear to an operator sitting at the keyboard of the machine.

The calculating machine shown by way of example in the drawing is in its general features constructed in accordance with U. S. Patent No. 2,108,596 and is driven electrically with a driving aggregate in accordance with U. S. Patents Nos. 2,488,011 issued November 15, 1949, and 2,431,930 issued December 2, 1947'; moreover, the machine is constructed for automatic step shifting and automatic division in accordance with the U. S. Patent No. 2,398,286 issued April 9, 1946. However, theinvention may or course, also be applied to other ty'p'es'of calculating machines. Asimilar machine is shown in our copending application, Serial No. 724,800, now Patent No. 2,560,910. 'In the instant case the claims are directed to the use of a single sensin mechanism to sense the digital values stored in a multi order storage device. In thecopending application the claims are directed to a means for simultaneously entering quantities into the difierential actuator of the machine and into the multi-order storage device. In addition in the 'co'pending application certain claims are directed to details 0f the use of the machine in performing the operations of consecutively multiplying the same multiplier by a plurality of multiplicands and "to squaring quantities.

General principle of the machine The calculating machine according to the invention has a single common keyboard for setting the two factors of the multiplication. First the multiplier is set by means of this keyboard. The item set is thereby simultaneously entered both into the diiferential actuator and into a special multiplier storage device connected in parallel with said differential actuator. For this purpose the setting members operated by the keys simultaneously set the difierential actuator as well as the multiplier storage mechanism. When the multiplier is being entered, the multiplier storage mechanism is shifted step by step together with the differential actuator. During its rotation the differentialactuator operates an accumulator (results register) in the usual manner, while the multiplier storage mechanism later (after the multiplicand is entered) serves to automatically control the number and the directions of the revolutions to be carried out by the differential actuator in each individual denomination of said accumulator. I

After the multiplier has been simultaneously set in the differential actuator and in the storage mechanism as described above, a special operating key, for example marked X, is depressed manually which causes the main actuator to be cleared, while, on the other hand, the item set (the multiplier) remains set in storage mechanism; which upon the manual depression of the just mentioned special operating key X is disengaged from the setting members operated by said keyboard and possibly also from the step shifting members (if the keyboard is of the ten-key type); Now the multiplica-nd is set in the main actuator-by means of the same keyboard and this has no influence on the storage mechanism which has been disengaged from the setting members before this setting procedure'as mentioned above. When now a special operating key, which may be'marked is depressed, the operation of multiplication is effected automactially because the main actuator is caused to rotate in that direction and that number of times in each denomination of the accumulator which is deter mined by the numeral value of the multiplier which has been entered into the multiplier storage mechan'ism in'the correspondin denomination.

After feeling has been effected in a certain denomination of the storage mechanism and the differential actuator has carried out its revolutions in accordance therewith for the corresponding denomination of the accumulator, the main actuator and the feeler proper of the mechanism are shifted one step to the next denomination in which feeling then takes place, etc., etc. The automatic multiplication is continued inthis way until the multiplicand has been multiplied by the whole multiplier set in the storage mechanism and sensed by the feeler mechanism.

-Thesame step shifting mechanism is preferably used both for the main actuator and for the feeler mechanism, and this considerably simplifies the construction. Yet it should be observed that during the setting of the multiplier the multiplier storage mechanism, and the differential actuator (such as a pin wheel rotor), are shifted stepwisetogether, whereas during the operation of feeling the multiplier entered the multiplier storage mechanism stands still while the feeler proper (the feeler arm) is shifted stepwise together with the main actuator. .The latter is in the usual manner provided with reading members 32a (Fig.1) or is coupled to such members so'that at the setting themultiplier and the multiplicand 

